] Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) said yesterday
] that it has developed a prototype fuel cell that it hopes
] to commercialize within three years at a size small
] enough to fit inside mobile phones and other portable
] consumer electronics devices.

NTT develops hydrogen fuel cell for mobile phones

Decius wrote:

] This isn't going to result in a bunch of practical attacks
] right away, but its time to move to another algorithm.

I may have heard some mumbling that the entire class of hashes
built on "iterated compression functions" is suspect at this point.

Whirlpool, on the other hand, is based on the Rijndael transformation:

http://www.memestreams.net/thread/bid14922/

RE: Schneier on Security: SHA-1 Broken

] Content protection company Macrovision Corp. plans to
] announce on Tuesday that it has developed a way to
] eliminate the vast majority of DVD copying.

I don't see how this can possibly work. Macrovision is dumb.

New Tech Prevents DVD Copying, Kills 'Rippers'

] Liberty Alliance Project, February 10, 2005 --Liberty
] Alliance, the global consortium for open federated
] identity standards and identity-based Web services, today
] announced the public draft release of ID-WSF 2.0, a
] second-generation framework for identity-based Web
] services.

I think Liberty Alliance's #1 problem is: too much weird jargon!

Liberty Alliance Project

] AOL now reports that over 90 percent of its incoming spam
] comes directly from other ISPs' mail relays. "Spamhaus
] sees this change and the increase in spam it is producing
] as a threat to be taken seriously," the company stated.

SpamHaus: Spam Approaches 95 Percent of All E-mail

] Six companies, including Fuji Photo and CMC Magnentics,
] have formed a consortium to promote HVD technology, which
] will let consumers conceivably put a terabyte (1TB) of
] data onto a single optical disc.

Group aims to drastically up disc storage

] Sxip Networks: Reinventing Digital Identity

Sxip Networks - personal digital identity

I've been using DSPAM for some time now and have recently upgraded
to 3.2.3 from [old] ... at some point, they switched the default
storage backend from Berkeley DB which I hate more with each passing day to SQLite... it also supports various SQL (My, Postgres, Oracle) for big deployments.

I have been quite happy with it. It works really really well
once trained.

DSPAM 3.2.3 Release Notes

] Firefox's share of the U.S. browser market grew by more
] than a third in the last month, a Web metrics firm said
] Monday.

Yay.

Firefox Keeps Slicing Into IE's Share

]
] Motorola%u2019s Residential Gateway 2200 (RG2200) is
] among the world%u2019s most advanced set-top box for
] supporting cable and satellite competitive communications
] and entertainment services over the telecommunications
] infrastructure. A key component of the Motorola
] Multi-Service Access Platform, the RG2200 is the single
] set-top interface to the complete end-to-end solution for
] bundled services %u2013 voice, data, broadcast, and
] on-demand video services.

This is a set-top box for DSL.

Motorola Residential Gateway 2200